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2014-06-15

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  • Looking for a place to cross a large stream. Overhanging snow made jumping impossible. The consequences of a mistake were great.

    Looking for a place to cross a large stream. Overhanging snow made jumping impossible. The consequences of a mistake were great.

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  • New stream

    New stream

    On the Black Rapids Glacier in the Eastern Alaska Range. Eventually the slushy blue streaks in the snow from a few days before this gave way to water channels in the ice beneath the surface. Sometimes they find old channels from previous years, sometimes they don't. In the summer of 2014 we spent two weeks camped on the glacier and had to cross many of these streams. It was still early in the melt season which meant that there weren't any moulins yet to drain the water for the surface. This meant that to get across the glacier we had to jump over many of these streams, a handful of which were quite wide. My knees would often be swollen and sore at the end of the day. I was always more comfortable jumping to my dominant, right leg, but when I didn't mix it up I paid for it later. I started jumping all the small streams to my left leg, and only to my right if there were consequences for missing a jump.

  • New weather pattern

    New weather pattern

    Clouds get held up on the high peaks. This will be the beginning of some pretty awful weather up here. The sort of reddish veins appearing in the snowpack is an algae commonly called "watermelon snow".

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